Procedure and House Affairs committee  They have tried a few things in terms of staggering voter hours. It's interesting that with all the advance polling and the increasing use of advance polls, that actually reduces the problem that you identify, right?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Voters who vote in an advance poll in British Columbia or in Newfoundland have registered their vote at the same time with the same information.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I'm not agreeing that they're old.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Go ahead.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's difficult to be in Elections Canada's shoes. I know you're going to speak with the acting CEO soon, but one might be a suspicion regarding the problem that you outlined, foreign money finding its way into partisan purposes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  A dramatic change in behaviour of a third party might be reason to arouse the suspicions of someone and make it reasonable to demand the audit trail or the receipts.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, and one of the provisions in Bill C-76 is the commissioner's ability to initiate an investigation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's not automatic. I don't want to leave you with the impression that someone would make a complaint and then the commissioner would have to launch to investigation. It's not—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If they have reason to believe that there's an issue, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Can we accept that “platform” might be an important policy, so “x” is really important? In that case, they've declared that a certain policy is important.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That is not partisan advertising. That's merely a declaration that this issue is important. It's issue advertising. It's covered in the writ period. It's not covered in the pre-writ period.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's partisan. To be crystal clear, even if in the writ period you mention that this policy is really important, that counts towards the spending limit of the third party.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In remote areas, there is increased use of mobile polls, and that helps both with advance polling and on the actual day of. In the case of persons with disabilities, there's greater scope for support from Elections Canada, regardless of the type of disability. Currently it's limi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is speculation on my part, but I would just observe that political parties are dedicated to winning office and winning power; third parties have other and different interests.